Manafort, Stone, and Black started a lobbying firm in the 1980's.

[kentuck]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/a_timeline_of_paul_manafort_s_relationship_with_the_trump_world.html

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1980: Manafort, Stone, and Charles Black (all Reagan campaign officials) open their lobbying shop in Washington, D.C.

From Vanity Fair:

Their first client, Stone recalled, was none other than Donald Trump, who retained him, irrespective of any role Manafort might have had in the firm, for help with federal issues such as obtaining a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge the channel to the Atlantic City marina to accommodate his yacht, the Trump Princess.

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Stone described the lobbying work he did for Trump on Frontline, saying Trump had a number of small but important issues.

For example, the Treasury Department is rewriting the currency transaction rules as they pertain to casinos. He has an interest there. He’s built a couple of skyscrapers that are five feet taller than the FAA-allowed limit. He needs a waiver there. He buys the Trump Princess from [Saudi businessman Adnan] Khashoggi, but it’s too big to come into the Atlantic City harbor without dredging. He needs dredging permits. Those usually take three years. We got them for him in a couple months.

Stone oversaw Trump’s business at the lobbying firm, but as Franklin Foer wrote in Slate, “Manafort didn’t own the Trump account at the firm. But one of his former partners told me that he would dispense advice and pitch in, winning Trump’s trust.”

...more at link above

[empedocles]

1. Manafort got his start with the Bushes way back when

then James Baker - Bush fixer, took Manafort on as a protégé. This tangled stuff goes way back

[empedocles]

2. then remember

Nixon famously said of [H] Bush, 'Bush knows how to keep his mouth shut'.

. . . 'and so it goes' . . .

[kentuck]

3. This timeline shows a real "deep state" amongst Republican criminals...

...in my opinion.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I have right in front of me a long-sleeve t-shirt for the

Children's Hospice International 10K Run For The Children.

The first sponsor on the list is the firm of Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly.

There's no date on the t-shirt to say when the 10K run was held.